The International Institute on Ageing, United Nations, Malta (INIA) will be organising an International Training Programme in Health Promotion, Quality of Life and Well-being.

The programme, to be held between tomorrow and May 15 at the Qawra Palace Hotel, will be opened by Justyne Caruana, Parliamentary Secretary for the Rights of Persons with Disability and Active Ageing.

It is aimed to stimulate discussion and understanding of the relationship between health and longevity from a life-course perspective. Special emphasis is put on the totality of the human being, including health, social and economic aspects.

The programme includes lectures, workshops and site visits to St Vincent De Paule residential home for the elderly in Mtarfa and to Villa Messina, Rabat.

Apart from the local faculty, lecturing on the programme are Harrison Bloom, founder and past director of the International Education and Consultation Service for the International Longevity Centre-US (ILC-US), New York City, and Marion McMurdo, head of ageing and health at the University of Dundee and an honorary consultant physician in medicine for the elderly, Scotland.

Twenty-one participants hailing from Bangladesh, Belarus, Cameroon, China, Georgia, India, Iran, Kazakhstan, Macedonia, Malta, Moldova, Nigeria, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia and Ukraine will be participating.

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